Eternity Wrote:In trying to narrow it down, I've been thinking, researching, meditating, etc., and I keep coming back to Elves and Fae (note that I believe there is little difference between the two).
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--> Not that they are not somewhat close to one another, but I wouldn't describe the difference as "little". If I stand some fae next to some elves (by which I mean otherkin of both types) and "look" at them both, there is a definite energetic difference -- a thread of "elvenness" which is different from a thread of "faeryness" -- besides the various etheric-physical differences such as height and build, presence of animalistic features that is much more common in fae, presence or absence of wings, affinity for things like shapeshifting, etc. I consider it to be a spectrum, with sidhe actually falling in between elves and fae, at least in terms of look and feel, if you will (taxonomically I consider sidhe to be a type of faery in the broadest sense).
Quote:So far my opinion is that Fae are a type of Elemental.
I disagree with this too. I agree with Archer that elementals are energy beings made up of an element. (I disagree, though, that Faery is a planet. The word "world" is fine but it is not a physical ball of rock like Earth; "dimension" or "plane" might be better. It is a spiritual or etheric world.) While faery can be aligned to an element, this does not make them elementals in that sense. Nature spirits (river spirits, tree spirits, rock spirits...) also are not elementals IMO/IME; they
inhabit natural phenomena rather than being the spiritual force that makes them up in the first place. And for that matter nature spirits are not the same as faery, although there can be considerable overlap in appearance and domicile. I think there is a spectrum here of size and independence of consciousness. Elementals have a tendency to occur in "hives" although some are bigger than others with consciousnesses more like those we'd recognize with these human brains.
Quote:-In your opinion/belief, what is the difference between Elementals and Fae?
-Between Elves and Fae?
Got to these above, I think. Like Archer, a faery can be basically any being from Faery, so it's a very broad umbrella. Just to confuse things more, there are also elves which are "from Faery".
Quote:-What do you know about Wyldfae?
I haven't heard this term outside of the old, old e-list "wyldefae". They seemed to be using the concept looselt to mean less organized, independent, courtless, but also just for the "gypsy" kind of cachet.
Quote:-Do you have a larger amount of visual memories than other memories (feelings, hearing, etc)?
Yes, but I'd be hesitant to relate this to my kin-type, rather than to my current biology/psychology. Why do you ask?
Quote:-If you remember, what do you remember about what Faerie looked like, as compared to how humans view the Earth now?
You can't quite compare it to Earth because, as I said above, it's not a physical place in the same sense. It overlaps with Earth's "underworld" in some places. Shining, glittering, glimmering, glowing; multicoloured, intense colours (except perhaps in the Winter-lands); self-luminous land; twilight sky without sun or moon ("the greylight"), but often with stars; changeable in many places, illusory (but "held" in some places by various lord-types, who form the land to their desire and keep it there). Not very beholden to the laws of physics as we know them, so if you could imagine it and had sufficient power to shape with, you could probably make it somewhere.
Quote:Do you have an affinity to night?
Yes, but again I wonder where you're going with this exactly. An affinity to
stars specifically is quite common among elves and sidhe and to a lesser degree (IME) among other kinds of faery. My personal belief is that sidhe particularly (less sure about other fey) originated as a kind of celestial, hence the folkloric belief in some places that the faery are angels that were "too bad for Heaven, too good for Hell". If you mean night considered as a time of day and the associated concepts of darkness, shadows, etc., then also yes, but that's me personally and I don't really link it to being fey.
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